Ivy League hacker to pay price at Princeton
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Your support makes all the difference.Princeton University has announced, with unaccustomed humility, that it is disciplining a senior official who admitted last month that he had hacked into the computer system of the rival Yale University.
The announcement was aimed at settling the controversy that had pitted the two Ivy League institutions – Princeton in New Jersey and Yale in Connecticut – against one another and cast a spotlight on the ferocity of competition between them for students.
The president of Princeton, Shirley Tilghman, said the student admissions official Stephen LeMenager would be moved to another position, but not fired. His supervisor will be allowed to continue until next summer, when he is due to retire.
"These actions were wrong," DrTilghman said after unveiling a report into the affair. She noted, however, that Mr LeMenager had gone into the Yale site, set up to notify prospective undergraduates whether they had been accepted, out of curiosity as to how it worked.
"One of the lessons of this experience," she said, "is that even individuals with a high degree of sensitivity to ethical principles in traditional settings can fail to be equally sensitive when technology is involved."
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